Arab Nationalist Guard

The Arab Nationalist Guard is a secular volunteer militia force in Syria, formed in April 2013. The guard's membership included volunteers from across the Arab World, including Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen, and some of the guard's militiamen were veterans of the Libyan Civil War and Iraq War. The group espouses Arab nationalism, anti-Zionism, and anti-colonialism, and the group is opposed to religious extremism and sectarianism.